Clugston Construction has won a £5.9m contract to refurbish Wellington House in Leeds, the headquarters of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA).
Renfrewshire Council is to consider a planning application for the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) situated at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland.
Interserve has been awarded a place on the new £8bn Procure Partnerships Framework as a contractor partner, with access to construction contracts from £1m up to £25m-plus.
Morgan Sindall Construction has won a Pre-Contract Services Agreement to oversee the excavation and removal of over 2,000 burials at the former Strand Union Workhouse in Fitzrovia.
An industrial site at Hatcham Road, Bermondsey, which has been sold for £9.75m by KALMARs and joint agent Kingsbury, is set to be redeveloped into a new residential scheme.
Construction contract awards increased in October by 4.1% to £4.9bn compared with the previous month, as the residential sector takes the lion’s share of awards.
Kingston Council are now another step closer to beginning work on the new 80-bed dementia home, with the demolition of the existing site expected to begin in January 2020.
In the run-up to the general election, PBC Today takes a look at what the political party manifestos mean for the housebuilding and construction industry.
As part of their election manifesto, the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party have promised to combat the multi-billion pound late payment problem crippling the construction industry.
UK planners are ignoring flood management innovations that can be used to build developments on floodplains to meet the rising housing demands, says Floodline Consulting Ltd.
The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC) has developed methods to reveal a series of sustainable insights for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc – one of the UK’s largest housing and transport projects.
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